The Online Revolution

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The Online Revolution From e-books to MOOCs
Coping, adapting, embracing
Frank Vahid UC Riverside
Intro
Smita Bakshi Zyante CEO
Systems
Diane Rover Iowa State Univ.
Research
Yacob Astatke Morgan State Univ.
Experiences
Options
FV
All slides www.cs.ucr.edu/vahid/asee2013
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2012 Year of the Massive Open Online Course
Introduction
http//www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife
/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-
rapid-pace.html?pagewantedall_r0
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The Stanford Experiment
Aug 2011
AI 160,000
Machine learning 120,000
Databases 92,000
NYT 3/4/12 Instruction for Masses Knocks Down
Campus Walls
Udacity 5M Series A 4/12, 15M Series B 10/12
Coursera
EdX
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Online/virtual not new

• 1960 PLATO Programmed Logic for Automated
  Teaching Operations
• 1976 Coastline Community College First virtual
  college in U.S.
• 2002 MIT OpenCourseWare (MITxEdX)

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Online course stats
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Why now?

• Prices

• Technology
• HTML5
• Broadband
• Cloud computing
• Pads
• Lack of access
• Avg CA college 7,000 on wait lists
• CSU 16 4-yr